Julieta is an
excellent movie about a woman looking back on her life, realizing how little
she knows about her daughter. There are two phenomenally emotional performances
by Adriana Ugarte playing the younger Julieta and Emma Suarez as the older
Julieta. In one fabulous shot, we see Julieta age and transform in a magical
switch underneath a towel. It is a movie about a mother-daughter relationship;
Pedro Almodovar returns to the theme of family and women (The people who gave
us their extra invitations mislead us into believing that the protagonist was a
lesbian). The character development is rich and skillfully told. As the story
is primarily told in flashback, there is a natural suspense as we wonder how we
get from the past to the present. For much of the film, we are left wondering
what exactly the drama is. The brilliantly composed suspenseful music doesn't
match the tone of the film (but rather cleverly anticipates it) until we
finally realize the motive towards the end of the movie. The style is colorful
and grand. The cinematography ranges from subtle to epic in the mountains of
Spain. And while the ending might not provide the full closure that some clamor
for, it was sufficiently satisfying to me.
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